Honolulu Zoo

little update~~

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11/24/12 3 AM
tweaked my comp considerably~~the bamboo type is kind of getting busy and then the 'zoo' part looks a little awkward-probably gonna revise that

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11/24/12 4:29 p.m

some value and color studies!!
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12/05/12
4:32 am

Robot butler and maid paper toys: Salix and Silica 9000

Working on one of my finals because the class got pushed to week 14 ;_; soo hoping to finish it really soon so I have more time to work on other things....

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11/25/12 2:33pm

Hello again! I've gotten quite far with this project. It's something I absolutely cannot get out of my head--I can't stop thinking about it because I'm just so excited to finish it haha. I don't know if I've ever felt this way about a project before but I am seriously having the time of my life on this one haha, I've been up till 6-7 am almost every morning this week just working on this thing. Sadly I think I can only do one for the final but I am expecting it to be kick ass!! 

Meet Silica 9000, the all-in-one robot. (And yes, like the small silica packages in shoe boxes that tell you to not eat them)

I was finally able to find a box for it--you know when you get a piece of junk that you think you might use in the future so you keep saving it and think about whether or not to throw it away? Well this is one of those cases where being a pack rat has come in handy for me! I actually have a cardboard box that was used to contain wine aaand I was so overjoyed when everything fit perfectly!! :) I'm so glad I also interned at Miso Music too because I really wouldn't have a clue how to approach this packaging thing without having had a little experience designing apps, working on a point of purchase display, and such!!

The Dream

I actually have no idea where this is going--can't even quite explain it.

it's supposed to be common themes and emotions I have in my dreams--but the connection between the tarot cards and illustrating the emotions isn't clear @_@ ughh

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hihi! I finally had a chance work on these -- I had to take out a few of the cards for concept and research's sake

I think I'm beginning to pick up some sort of color palette (yay?) here's just two of the cards--won't have a whole deck but I've based my research on Van de Castle's Quantative Coding System for dreams to help me better categorize my dreams and illustrate them better. I also am using tarot cards, connecting them to dreams using the meanings and emotions tied to them instead of the function they serve to reveal the future. 

December 02, 2012, 7:43 am

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done with the project!!

I had to blur one of them out because of the language used.

December 7, 2012 7:06 p.m.

Alice's Tea Party

I've been pretty busy lately!! soo there's gonna be a couple more posts after this with all my wips. 

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11/03/12

Style: Alley cats in Pasadena

we're supposed to be emulating the style they used in 101 Dalmatians--here's my lineart so far--I need to make a few tweaks and additions.

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09/28/12 value study for this scene
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10/05/12 I actually went with a different lighting situation--still in the process of coloring it--D: ahh i can now see the places that need some improvement/clarification.

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I've decided to take a break from my intro to maya stuff by....well doing more work haha! Here's a sneak peek of two of my pages for my style guide for style. Off to bed for now u_u 10/07/12 6:05am

Dark Bathroom

So I'm taking this class called "The Dream" and we are supposed to create a dream journal with some visual imagery. My mom was driving me in the car and was going to park in the garage but for some reason, the controller was downstairs on one of my bookshelves. When I got there, the bathroom door was wide open but it was pitch black in there. (There's actually a window in the bathroom so it would never actually be that dark) I tried to turn on the knob of the lamp next to me but it wouldn't work. I somehow knew that either I had disconnected it....or someone or something had gotten to it before I did.
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sorry for the really sad iphone pic but I figured that I would have a ton of these by the end of term and won't put all of it on here. The watercolor pencils I used were great but I could have executed it a little better (perhaps less sloppy and thought about my colors more) but that will just come over time. On top of that, this isn't supposed to be some dazzling piece of art I put a lot of thought into--it is hard to not care about how you do art when you plan to have a career in it. =_=

This is done with watercolor pencils, a faber castel brush pen (permanent carmine), and some colored pencils here and there.

I have six classes this term and I tried to balance it out by choosing classes with what seems to be a manageable workload. But I will force myself to update with either crappy iphone pictures or crappy scans! :D

peach cobbler

Just a little peach cobbler I made for my mom last week. It was alright--I wanted to actually try the Aretha Franklin peach cobbler recipe but I was to lazy to make pie dough. Honestly, in all the pictures I took, it looks like fried chicken with chocolate and vanilla ice cream haha.